Xbooru - Pop-unders on first site-load every day

buttseckz

04/06/16 09:10PM

Pop-unders on first site-load every day

I am experiencing some popunder stuff going on for the last weeks whenever I visit the post listing for the first time in a day. Behaviour: I click somehwere on the website (either link or some blank space!), a new tab gets opened in foreground with the current page and old tab navigates to some shady stuff (ashley something, some erotic games and so on).

I did some investigation today, seems like enabling uBlock on the site and looking at the log for xbooru.com during the described behaviour turns up this:

22:59:07 ||exoclick.com^$popunder -- popunder syndication.exoclick.com/...600x900&key_check=280

Can this get fixed? I will at least keep uBlock enabled for now since I do not want this popunder-behaviour going on.

Kielan

04/07/16 01:07AM

buttseckz said:
I am experiencing some popunder stuff going on for the last weeks whenever I visit the post listing for the first time in a day. Behaviour: I click somehwere on the website (either link or some blank space!), a new tab gets opened in foreground with the current page and old tab navigates to some shady stuff (ashley something, some erotic games and so on).

I did some investigation today, seems like enabling uBlock on the site and looking at the log for xbooru.com during the described behaviour turns up this:

22:59:07 ||exoclick.com^$popunder -- popunder syndication.exoclick.com/...600x900&key_check=280

Can this get fixed? I will at least keep uBlock enabled for now since I do not want this popunder-behaviour going on.

We where unable to reproduce your issue, I tried with Chrome, Firefox and Opera and got nothing happening by clicking on a blank area or on the posts, try replicating the same on another web browser, can you give screen shot or something to go on? the post link is near an ad, you may have clicked the ad, it will open up a new tab, that's it.

Also the ads are not "shady" by that company, unless you have evidence to the contrary, other than words.

Furry_Love

04/07/16 06:09AM

could it be DNS unlocker? when i had it i had some of those problems and usually a ad on the right side of the screen appears with 3 deals in it saying something like popular around the world on top

buttseckz

04/07/16 06:11PM

Kielan said:
you may have clicked the ad

Definitely not. It happens even when you clicked on an image, a tag or a page number.

Also, it is not browser related: Just tried in in Internet explorer (I normaly use firefox): same behaviour. Your first click anywhere on the website triggers a popunder, leading to a third-party site (and yes, I think those sites are shady considering they are advertised with tricks like these).

Screenshots:
before I clicked: fs5.directupload.net/images/160407/flamm5cs.png

after I clicked: fs5.directupload.net/images/160407/flamm5cs.png

(I clicked somewhere in the yellowspace in the middle of the pictures)

Regarding DNS unlocker: I see the same behaviour from my linux and my windows OS, both kept virus- and bloatware-free, so I'd guess DNS unlocker is not related to this issue.